NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, will complete the exploration phase of its mission on Sept. 16, after a number of successes that transformed our understanding of Earth’s nearest neighbor.
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Amateur astronomers using backyard telescopes were the first to detect two small objects that burned up in Jupiter’s atmosphere on June 3 and Aug. 20.
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Two asteroids will pass within the moon’s distance from Earth on Wednesday, Sept. 8. NASA scientists will be available for satellite interviews Tuesday, Sept. 7, and Wednesday morning to discuss these near- Earth objects.
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NASA is offering undergraduate students an opportunity to test an experiment in weightless science as part of the agency’s Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program.
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has detected a hypervelocity star – a rare phenomenon moving three times faster than our sun.
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NASA will host an interactive workshop to identify objectives for exploration missions to near-Earth objects, or NEOs, on Aug. 10-11 at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel in Washington.
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NASA will hold a media teleconference Thursday, Aug. 26, at 1 p.m. EDT to discuss the Kepler spacecraft’s latest discovery about an intriguing planetary system.
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NASA has begun development of a mission to visit and study the sun closer than ever before.
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To see what life might be like on a distant planet, reporters need only travel to the Arizona desert.
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NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, has allowed scientists for the first time to comprehensively view the dynamic nature of storms on the sun.
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